IBM has released Granite 4.1, a family of open-source language models designed for enterprise use, featuring three sizes and trained on 15 trillion tokens. The 8B model utilizes a dense architecture without mixture of experts (MoE) techniques and outperforms Granite 4.0-H-Small across various benchmarks.

IBM plans to create 750 new AI and quantum jobs at its Chicago hub. The expansion of the IBM–Illinois Discovery Accelerator Institute will focus on AI, quantum-centric supercomputing, and algorithm development over the next five years.

IBM and Arm have formed a strategic collaboration to develop dual-architecture hardware aimed at enhancing the performance of AI and data-intensive workloads for enterprises. This partnership focuses on improving flexibility, reliability, and security in enterprise computing.

IBM's 4 Pi aerospace computers were integral to the Space Shuttle's first flight on April 12, 1981, managing critical systems below the crew deck. A fifth computer was available as a backup in case of a catastrophic failure of the primary systems.